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So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills.

Currently my plans look like this:

  • Host Jellyfin
  • Host my own NAS
  • Some form of hosted musicstreaming integration with my local music
  • Automate Backups and push them on my server
  • make all of the above things available where ever I want using my own self hosted domain.
  • run my own dns

In the long term I also want to be able to host my own webapps, since I will soon start to develop one for someone.

Now I want to know what suggestions do you have, for stuff thats really cool and that I can selfhost.

Edit: thanks for all the replies. Definitely going to look into this.

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[–] blueryth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Headscale, for one. This is probably implied as part of one of your above stacks, but let's list it out loud. Tailscale is great and all, but it's downright icky to offload routing of any variety to a third party.

Immich. Turn off Apple or Google's automatic scraping of all photos, keep usability. Even if you're not a photo person, at least some of your users are.

Syncthing is or Nextcloud, or something in the family. This may already be part of your NAS plans.

One of the code forges like forgejo, gitea, gitlab. Even when not a developer. Self hosting involves configuration and if you can get that into text and into a history, it makes things so much easier. Add bells and whistles to your hearts content, but these are good suites for a lot of functionality. Forgejo does have federation on its road map, but it's a while off still.

These are ones I find pretty ubiquitous. There's so many options once you have initial infrastructure. Email, for instance, isn't as daunting as the horror stories make it sound, though not as simple as many hope. My suggestion is to take time and do it correctly. There's a lot of backtracking involved as you learn more, but it's usually worth it. Best of luck!

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All the things!

/thread /s

ETA: added sarcasm

[–] Vaggumon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

This is what I'm currently hosting, might find something here that interests you.

AudioBookshelf: Exactly as the name implies Navidrome: Music Streamer MeTube: YouTube/Video Site downloader ConvertX: Converts hundreds of files. Beszel: Dashboard to monitor hardware MediaVault: My own app I wrote to track my Movies, Music, Video Games, Books. AMP: Video game server management software. JellyFin: Movie/TV Streaming Software FileBrowser: Browser based file management software. Radarr: Find Movies, download them. Sonarr: Find TV Shows, download them. ARM: Automatic Ripping Machine, put in a DVD/BluRay, Rips, compresses, and moves to JellyFin. (Huge pain to get working though, for me at least.) Pihole: Network management and Ad Blocker. Octaprint: 3D Printer management.

I have a bunch of other stuff too, like custom written scrips that show the info from Beszel on my Windows desktop via a Widget in RainMeter. Custom dashboard when I first login via SSH. My next thing to experiment with is setting up a custom website to use as a homepage dashboard for my browser, commonly used bookmarks, news feed, email alerts, weather, social media feeds, whatever else I can think of or get working.

And for anyone curious what the hardware is:

OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with xrdp Desktop Environment when Needed CPU: AMD 3700x RAM: 64GB Boot Drive: Samsung 990Evo 2TB m.2 Storage: 2x Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB HDD RAID 1 GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I currently have an assisted Snikket hostle which is an open wrixler.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personally, I am running Nextcloud (file backup mostly. There's a bunch of other options too if you don't want the "all-in-one"ness of Nextcloud, but I find that it has good integration with lots of apps), Immich (the best photo backup there is), Radicale (my first one, Nextcloud already has similar functionality I think. I use DAVx^5^ on my phone for this, Thunderbird for desktop), Vikunja (to-do list app, partly compatible with CalDAV. I pair this with the Android app Tasks[dot]org and it works quite well), and Forgejo (local git backup, I still use codeberg for cloud backup though). I can strongly recommend all of them, they all work fantastic! Tailscale is also neat to set up if you want to access your local network remotely.

One fun thing you can do is set up a little Minecraft server for you, any siblings/cousins/other family you have or your roommate if you have one of those. I host one using PaperMC, it's just a survival server for just me and my sibling, it's quite nice!

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[–] fogrye@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pihole and NAS are for sure goats of self-hosting, however I recommend at least try to host them for some time and figure out for yourself if you like that at all. Then add things as you go, whatever you need you may find options on awesome-selfhosted.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

A Snikket server is cool.

Navidrome maybe, but Jellyfin also works for music.

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